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Unraveling conformal gravity amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-10-17 v2

Abstract

Conformal supergravity amplitudes are obtained from the double-copy construction using gauge-theory amplitudes, and compared to direct calculations starting from conformal supergravity Lagrangians. We consider several different theories: minimal N=4{\cal N}=4 conformal supergravity, non-minimal N=4{\cal N}=4 Berkovits-Witten conformal supergravity, mass-deformed versions of these theories, as well as supersymmetry truncations thereof. Coupling the theories to a Yang-Mills sector is also considered. For all cases we give the gravity Lagrangians that the double copy implicitly generates. The two main results are: we determine a Lagrangian for the non-minimal Berkovits-Witten theory, and we uncover the double-copy prescription for the minimal N=4{\cal N}=4 conformal supergravity.

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@article{arxiv.1806.05124,
  title  = {Unraveling conformal gravity amplitudes},
  author = {Henrik Johansson and Gustav Mogull and Fei Teng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.05124},
  year   = {2018}
}

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32 pages, plus appendices and references; v2 minor changes

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